Mattia Rizzi <[email protected]> wrote: >I NEVER, NEVER, NEVER said that he is a great businessman!!! Why do > people keep putting these absurd statements into my mouth? I said the > opposite many times. > > Okay, you wrote that he was an “experienced businessman”. Change nothing > in yours and mines sentences. >
Below are a few things I said about Rossi on Nov. 4, and many times previously. I said he is sloppy and "pathological." If you call this unstinting praise, or hero-worshiping, I would hate to see what you call an insult. If I were to call him ax murderer I suppose you would say I admire his dexterity with tools. What is it about Rossi? You are only allowed to attack him and say the worst of him. When you even suggest that the facts prove he is right, or that he is brilliant despite his human flaws, why do so many people think you are a patsy or a naive? Have you people never encountered a brilliant, creative person with a jarring personality? You should have met Arata or Steve Jobs. Arata has a stellar intellect. He has had an astounding life, with many times more important accomplishments than most people. He deserves the building they named in his honor, and the international award, and the dozens of other awards. He has a tremendous grasp of physics and chemistry. His students and coworkers are loyal to him for decades, so he must inspire deep appreciation at some level. People are many-sided after all. The thing is, in ordinary interactions, talking with members of the press, or in his right-wing political YouTube videos, Arata can be an obnoxious jerk. You can read about Jobs in several biographies. As he said toward the end of his life, "living with me has not been a bowl of cherries." There is no doubt he was a brilliant businessman and he had a keen sense of design, and a sense of what can be done at the extreme edge of technology. Still, he was an obnoxious jerk. Manipulative, cruel, scheming . . . a terrible person in many ways. Rossi looks like a saint in comparison. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - QUOTING MYSELF: Rossi is also careless and he gets facts wrong. He does not care about details. He REALLY does not care about details, to an extent that most of us find pathological. Take his webpage. He has a board of advisors listed including a professor who does not exist and probably never did. I told him the guy does not exist then he said something like: "Well the name is something like that. I don't recall. What difference does it make?" He said the same thing with regard to his fake PhD from the diploma mill. He said: "someone gave me that; I don't know anything about it." As if we were talking about a vase on the shelf. He really, truly, sincerely does not give a fart about public relations or the fact that his web site features absurd statements. . . . It isn't as if he is lazy. He works 14 hours a day and only eats one meal a day in order to have more time to work and think. . . . He is said to be a master manipulator of people and a superb confidence man. Where does anyone get that idea?!? I have never met someone who inspires less confidence! He makes legitimate businessman sweat in fear while they look for an excuse to bolt for the door. Krivit calls him "strategic, articulate, charming." Good grief! What strategy?!? It looks like chaos to me, shifting from a deal with Defkalion one month to selling reactors the next. Articulate? He cannot express a simple, conventional technical concept without inducing confusion. Charming? He is one of the least charming people I have encountered. He is sweet at times, but he aggravates everyone I know -- especially his friends. . . . The ability to constantly shift your plans and change your mind is vital to the kind of intuitive, hands-on experimental work that Rossi does, or to an artist or fiction writer, but it makes interacting with other people awkward. . . . - Jed
